Current Events > Poll: majority of Democrats now view George W. Bush favorably

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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/357109-poll-dems-have-favorable-view-of-george-w-bush

A slim majority of Democrats in the United States holds a favorable view of former President George W. Bush, according to a new poll.

Fifty-one percent of Democrats in the Economist-YouGov survey say they have a somewhat or very favorable view of the 43rd president, while 42 percent hold a somewhat or very unfavorable view of Bush.

The results come just under one week after Bush delivered a blistering rebuke of President Trumps policies. While Bush did not mention Trump by name during the speech, he criticized foreign polices that do not combat security threats head-on and domestic policies that rebuff immigrants.

Weve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America. We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade, forgetting that conflict, instability and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism, Bush told a crowd at a security forum in New York.
The new online poll was conducted from Oct. 22 to 24, after Bushs speech. The survey of 1,500 adults, 1,312 of whom are registered voters, has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.

A Gallup poll in June found that Bushs favorability rating had climbed since 2016. Forty-one percent of Democrats in that survey held a favorable view of the former president.

*Jim Halpert stares at camera face*
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Well an old piece of crap looks a lot nicer when its compared to the new pile of crap.
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Its funny that these same people thought he should be tried as a war criminal.

thrashmetal14 posted...

Its funny that these same people thought he should be tried as a war criminal.

He should be
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thrashmetal14 posted...

Its funny that these same people thought he should be tried as a war criminal.

Yeah, well at this point I'd rather have a war criminal as president than Trump.
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TommyG663513 posted...

Well an old piece of crap looks a lot nicer when its compared to the new pile of crap.

Yeah, but it also has the dangers of overlooking the bad stuff that Bush did during his term. Bush may not appear to be as bad as Trump, but he had a lot of terrible policies.
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This happens across the board with presidents. The longer they've been out of office, the more people like them. Hell, even Nixon is seen in a better light than he was.
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Tmaster148 posted...

TommyG663513 posted...

Well an old piece of crap looks a lot nicer when its compared to the new pile of crap.

Yeah, but it also has the dangers of overlooking the bad stuff that Bush did during his term. Bush may not appear to be as bad as Trump, but he had a lot of terrible policies.

Its still only 43% and i'm willing to bet many people polled are mostly comparing him to Trump, not reexamining his presidency overall.
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TheVipaGTS posted...

Its still only 43%

51*
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antfair posted...

*Jim Halpert stares at camera face*

Damn. How weird is it to think it was during the Bush era that The Office started

Antifar posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

Its still only 43%

51*

misread. my point still stands.
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lmfao

So I guess in 8 years they will love Trump again.
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This is a weird fucking time we're living in.

I know presidents become more favorable as they're out of office but 51% favorable.

Da fuck?
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Nostalgia for a time less fucked up will make people's memories of the past more fond. This is literally only because of Trump. If we had a normal GOP president, it would still be lame, but people wouldn't be viewing George W favorably all of the sudden.
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pathetic

Malcolm_McGuffi posted...

pathetic

I think that regardless of your opinion on their politics, both Bush and Obama seem like pretty cool guys.
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It's because the current moment is always more important than the past. Now that the past is in the past, people are more willing to forgive GWB because he is no longer the president.
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Caution998 posted...

lmfao

So I guess in 8 years they will love Trump again.

I wouldn't put it past them to reminisce fondly about Trump when President Zombie Hitler is in the White House.
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SideshowBob311 posted...

I think that regardless of your opinion on their politics, both Bush and Obama seem like pretty cool guys.

nah both are terrible, Bush is worse of course, but Obama was still bad.
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Big surprise; he's a globalist. He's been hanging out with his best pals: obama, Clinton, and bush.
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I mean, regardless of your stances or beliefs, do people really think it's a good idea that the same families enter the White House?
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This is both in comparison to the current Republican president and in light of his most recent speech.

It's easy to frame a question by context in such a way to push the results in a headline breaking way. This is pretty much the entire field of Judgement and Decision Making.
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Caution998 posted...

It's because the current moment is always more important than the past. Now that the past is in the past, people are more willing to forgive GWB because he is no longer the president.

Trump is the only president I've liked so far in my life

Restrain posted...

Malcolm_McGuffi posted...

pathetic

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Ah yes, the typical American liberal apathetic lowering of the bar and being a little bitch that got us horrible people in the government in the first place. Damn good thing that the one thing you can count on an American having is integrity. /Sarcasm

*sigh*
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People have quickly forgotten about the horrors of the George W. Bush years. He used 9/11 as a platform to launch the Cheney/Rumsfeld Project for the New American Century, a plan to basically overthrow the Middle East and replace it all with pro-American regimes who would then give us access to cheap and plentiful oil for centuries, or so they hoped.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

People have quickly forgotten about the horrors of the George W. Bush years. He used 9/11 as a platform to launch the Cheney/Rumsfeld Project for the New American Century, a plan to basically overthrow the Middle East and replace it all with pro-American regimes who would then give us access to cheap and plentiful oil for centuries, or so they hoped.

Funny how conservatives have the reputation for conspiracy theories but dems are always spouting out nonsense like this.

TommyG663513 posted...

Well an old piece of crap looks a lot nicer when its compared to the new pile of crap.

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Suggesting that the Bush admin used those attacks to justify the war in Iraq is a conspiracy theory now? One on the same level as some top secret basement in a pizza parlor conspiracy?
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KazumaKiryu posted...

Funny how conservatives have the reputation for conspiracy theories but dems are always spouting out nonsense like this.

It's not even a conspiracy theory. The Bush Admin. had already been looking into regime change in Iraq before 9/11, which was not an inside job or anything, but it's absolutely true that the Bush Admin. used 9/11 as an excuse to pursue an agenda it was already looking into.

That's why Bush tried to tie Iraq to 9/11 and was so desperately hoping they had WMDs so the whole thing would end up being vindicated once those WMDs were found.
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I'd be interested to see how these poll numbers were influenced by Trump's disastrous first year. Bush really only looks good when compared to the current shitshow
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